Bacon, His Writings and His PhilosophyGriffin Bohn, 1862 - 715 páginas |
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Página 153
... winds throughout Christendom ; reducing the very face of Europe to a more peaceable and amiable coun- tenance . But to the purpose . It is very true , that these ecclesiastical matters are things not properly appertaining to my ...
... winds throughout Christendom ; reducing the very face of Europe to a more peaceable and amiable coun- tenance . But to the purpose . It is very true , that these ecclesiastical matters are things not properly appertaining to my ...
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... wind . And when he shall in judgment plead , A casting sentence bide he must : So shall he not lift up his head In the assembly of the just . For why ? the Lord hath special eye To be the godly's stay at call : And hath given over ...
... wind . And when he shall in judgment plead , A casting sentence bide he must : So shall he not lift up his head In the assembly of the just . For why ? the Lord hath special eye To be the godly's stay at call : And hath given over ...
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... winds to make them more rough ; so this people did light upon two ringleaders or captains of the rout . The one was one Michael Joseph , a blacksmith or farrier , of Bodmin , a notable talking fellow , and no less desirous to be talked ...
... winds to make them more rough ; so this people did light upon two ringleaders or captains of the rout . The one was one Michael Joseph , a blacksmith or farrier , of Bodmin , a notable talking fellow , and no less desirous to be talked ...
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... winds ; but yet thereby easing them of their vow , and using his wonted compassion , not to be by when his subjects ' blood should be spilt . The king , as soon as he heard of Perkin's flight , sent presently five hundred horse to ...
... winds ; but yet thereby easing them of their vow , and using his wonted compassion , not to be by when his subjects ' blood should be spilt . The king , as soon as he heard of Perkin's flight , sent presently five hundred horse to ...
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... wind and the discretion of their adventures , making a perambulation or pilgrimage about the northern seas , and ignobling many shores and points of land by shipwreck ; and so returned home with scorn and dishonour much greater than the ...
... wind and the discretion of their adventures , making a perambulation or pilgrimage about the northern seas , and ignobling many shores and points of land by shipwreck ; and so returned home with scorn and dishonour much greater than the ...
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Página 36 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 16 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 6 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 74 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Página 26 - TRUTH WHAT is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay .for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.
Página 27 - Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 49 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Página 75 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Página 80 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 38 - THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.